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Good article but introductory at best. If that was it's original aim, but pardon me, but at this point, I believe policy makers should aim to educate the general public on more of the specifics to do than on the general details. It is my assumption, and I believe I am right, that most of the people on this website are well educated. If so, continually reading the same stuff over and over again can also make so much progress. As mentioned, the article is appreciate it, but coming from a UN official herself, it do much more justice. Read more

Just to say that feeding cities shouldn't be overlooked, In Africa where we work the urban population is projected to reach 1.23 billion people in 2050; nearly three times its 2010 level of 413 million and equivalent to 61.6 per cent of Africa’s total population (UN DESA, 2009). By 2050, Africa will have a higher number of people living in cities than Europe, Latin America or North America. Whereas food poverty has historically been associated with African rural communities, this is no longer the case. With sustained urbanization, the locus of poverty is now shifting from rural to urban areas in the country. In addition, the recent sharp rise in food prices, coupled with an economic downturn, all suggest that poor urban households are experiencing a widening food gap. From this point the core development challenge will be in the growing towns and cities of the Continent, marking a major shift away from past concepts of rural development as an engine for social and economic advancement. Urban food security is now an issue. For example, whereas 2000 saw 10 small farms provisioned 7 non-farm/urban households the projection for sub-Saharan African, where in the next 10 years urban population is expected to grow by almost 45% from 320 million to 460 million, is that need now is that those 10 small farms would have to provision up to 16 non-farm/urban households. The challenge of supplying nutritious, safe and environmentally sustainable food to city dwellers is therefore substantial and cities are no longer there to be fed; cities must start feeding themselves. Read more

PS On Air: The Super Germ Threat

NOV 2, 2016

In the latest edition of PS On
Air
, Jim O’Neill discusses how to beat antimicrobial resistance, which
threatens millions of lives, with Gavekal Dragonomics’ Anatole Kaletsky
and Leonardo Maisano of
Il Sole 24 Ore.

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